At 45mn south of Caen and the landing beaches, Falaise Castle is a major example of medieval architecture of the 12th and 13th centuries.
Completely restored, the castle William the Conqueror of Falaise dominates the city with its 3 dungeons and its rampart flanked by 15 towers. Discover the stronghold built by the first Dukes of Normandy, reinforced by the descendants of William the Conqueror and completed by the King of France.
Film projections, staging, visualization and manipulation of 3D objects on tablets, furniture replica installations reveal the reality of the Ducal and Royal Castle of the 12th and 13th centuries. In a park, a film and stereoscopic binoculars make you relive the life of the castle as if you were there!
https://www.triplancar.com/en/lieu/chateau-guillaume-conquerant

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The castle is situated on the borders of Berry, Limousin and Poitou, Forges Castle is an architectural gem thanks to its historic authenticity and consistency of its period features.
The fortified home granted by Charles VII in 1447 to his faithful servant Jean de Poix is still a family treasure today as Hugues Tyrel de Poix, a Tyrel de Poix descendant, continues to preserve the medieval heritage.
The castle comprises of a keep that is now the owner’s private residence, guest accommodation and a guard room, offering a friendly welcome and a range of activities.
History
This fortress built at the start of the 14th century has retained its feudal character. Situated on a motte above the left bank of the river Anglin it was part of a line of fortified castles protecting the southern boundary of Berry. The square keep flanked by four round towers and surrounded on three sides by walls on which lean five towers containing many archers slots or holes. One of the towers was the dovecote. The way into the castle is from the south between two towers linked to the main part of the castle by a circular walkway containing murder holes used for firing arrows or for pouring boiling oil on invaders. In the inner courtyard is the four towered keep and to the south side the guard house. To the east, stables, the cellar and main castle chapel. 
In the middle of the 15th century the castle and Seigneurship came into the Tyrel family of Picardie, Sires de Poix. According to letters from 4 May 1442, Jehan de Poix a henchman of Charles VII received from the king, the authorisation to “Fortify and create ramparts in the said place of Forges and to make moats, walls, towers, palisades, drawbridge and barbican there.” (These later constructions no longer exist.) He was granted this for “Good services of our said henchman, who helped us as much during war as in his said office.” Forges remained in the same family for nearly three centuries until Marguerite de Poix, who also held the title Dame de Forges (in various capacities). She married Antoine de Lage, Seigneur de la Palisse, around 1600 but left no descendants. Her sister Renée de Poix who inherited the castle was the wife of Pierre de Muzard son of Claude de Muzard. He lived at Forges and had two daughters, Catherine Dame de Forges, who married Charles de Montmorency and Gabrielle, Dame de la Rochebellusson. Forges was sold to the Marquis de Lussac who relinquished it to Matthieu Pinsonneau about 1715. The latter became Marquis du Blanc and sold it to Marie de la Vieuville, Marquise de Parabère, who was ruined by the extravagant life style she maintained at the Court of the Regent. This grand lady was forced to sell the Blanc title and lands in 1738, including those at Forges, to Claude Dupin, Farmer General, Seigneur de Chenonceau. He was a Kings Counsellor and lived in Paris, Quai d’Anjou, on l’lle Saint Louis. He was a grandfather of Georges Sand. After the death of Claude Dupin, Forges passed into the ownership of his grandnephew, Claude de Villeneuve who sold it to Léon Chézeau, agriculturist. Fernand Aubier of the Editions Montaigne bought it from him. 
His descendants finally sold it to Vicomtesse Félix de Poix, the grandmother of the current owner who is the 13th generation since Jehan de Poix at Berry, and the 29th generation since his Picardie ancestor Gauthier Tyrel de Poix who went to England with William the Conqueror
http://www.chateaudeforges.fr

Château de Forges

Château d'Ingrandes is located in the town of Ingrandes (Indre) 7 km west of White. It is the subject of a registration as a historic monument since 1 October 1987.Defended by the steep valley of the Anglin south, and by deep ditches (missing) to the north, the castle was built in the eleventh century. It was built on the site of a Roman castrum, commander of the Roman road from Bourges to Poitiers which found trace on the table Peutinger. Duguesclin, from Sainte-Severe Poitiers followed the banks of the Anglin, hastily taking the fortresses lining the invaders. The country was English at that time, part of the fief of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The castle was then rebuilt in the fourteenth century and fifteenth century. The remains we remain today. The framework of the tower hoardings was dated 1465. Henry, during his wars against the league, conquered the castle and gave it to the lord of the White Antoine Aloigny in gratitude for his help. The towers in pepper dungeon and enclosure were there appears truncated under Decrees of 1626 ordering the destruction of the military strongholds of the kingdom. Marie-Henriette Aloigny, quoted by Saint-Simon as a scheming, was exiled to the court of Versailles and lived in the castle of Ingrandes where she built the house seventeenth century and the village church (1698). After the sale in 1734 following the financial collapse of its owner, the farmer-general Claude Dupin, grandfather of George Sand (Aurore Dupin born), became, in 1739, acquired all of the castles Marquisat Blanc (Roches, Forges, Ingrandes, etc.). The circumstances of the destruction of the main building are unclear: it could date back to the late eighteenth century. Castle Ingrandes remained the property of the descendants Dupin, the baron of Villeneuve until the beginning of this century. In 1923, he then became the property of the family that Combescure exploited as farm until the 1970s. Alain and Jacqueline Drouart are acquiring the ruins of the castle of Ingrandes in 1982. A protection application package is submitted. The castle is listed in the inventory of Historical Monuments by prefectural 1 October 1987. To date, the home of the fifteenth century is completely restored, the keep is saved and the work continues. In 2005, a hoarding was rebuilt on the speaker towers. On 17 April 2008, a new roof is placed on the stair tower.
http://www.frenchchateau.net/chateaux-of-centre/chateau-d-ingrandes.html